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Synopsis
When most middle-class families are moving from cities to suburbs in the early 1960s, twelve-year-old Jackie Dunn and his family are forced to leave tranquil Marin County and move to Fog Town, a harsh working-class neighborhood in San Francisco.
Jackie, highly intelligent and mature for his age, hates his new surroundings and is soon confronted by three dangerous thugs. Tension between Jackie and the thugs escalates to a point where they trap Jackie in an abandoned house and set it afire. In an attempt to escape, Jackie pummels one of the thugs, sending him to his apparent death in the flames. Was it self-defense? Or, an intentional slaying? Jackie's not sure.
He struggles with this conflict through his teen years while at war with the surviving thugs. Jackie develops character as he rises above and leaves Fog Town to move into the Haight-Ashbury during its famous Summer of Love in 1967. Jackie then receives a draft notice and must decide whether he will expose himself to further killing this time in Vietnam, or not.
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About the Author
Author Jim Toland is a former San Francisco Chronicle editor whose byline has appeared in that newspaper as well as Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and Newsday.
Author of three other novels, Once Were Wolves, City Limits and Maleficus, he has taught writing, editing and journalism at City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University.
Jim Toland grew up in blue-collar San Francisco during the 1960s. He worked in the city as a Teamster, longshoreman and bartender before being drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War. He served as an Army hospital orderly in a physical rehabilitation unit at Fort Lewis, Washington.
After military service, he attended City College and San Francisco State where he studied creative writing and journalism. He earned a B.A. in the latter. He was tagged as chief writer and content development consultant for President Clinton's Y2K education Web site 1999-2000.
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Rico Press / Second Edition, 2014
ISBN 10: 0970210957
ISBN 13: 9780970210951
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